, school-enterprise cooperation [15].Resonating the national ambition in building an innovation-driven economy, the 3E policy alsocalls attention to strengthening the cultivation of engineers’ innovative and entrepreneurialabilities. The policy envisions a "creative-innovation-entrepreneurship" education system forengineers, which aims to increase the employment of college graduates via innovation andentrepreneurship, particularly through supporting incubators for student entrepreneurs, makerspace, and other platforms for innovation and entrepreneurship [15]. The policy stresses theimportance of integrating innovation and entrepreneurship education into professional trainingwith real-world, cross-border issues, ill-structured problems, and future
Civil Engineering Body ofKnowledge for the 21st Century outlines the outcomes that “define the knowledge, skills, andattitudes necessary to enter the practice of civil engineering at the professional level in the 21stcentury.”3 One of the professional outcomes listed is Communication; the document cites theneed for engineers to be able to “plan, compose, and integrate the verbal, written, virtual, andgraphical communication of a project to technical and non-technical audiences.”3In addition, ABET accredited universities are well versed in the necessity of teachingcommunication skills within their curriculum, since one of the required student outcomes is “anability to communicate effectively.”4 As mentioned above, the civil engineering
sequence for the BIOE Department at the University of Washington. Taylor currently pursues educational research and continuous improvement activities, with the ultimate goal of optimizing bioengineering curriculum design and student learning outcomes.Dr. Stephanie Pulford, Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching (CELT) Dr. Stephanie Pulford is an instructional consultant within University of Washington’s Center for Engi- neering Teaching & Learning, where she coordinates the Engineering Writing & Communication Devel- opment Program. Dr. Pulford’s professional background in engineering includes a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, an M.S. in Engineering Mechanics, and a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering as well as
anddisseminating lessons derived from writing studies that allow instructors to break out ofdysfunctional, labor-intensive traditional practices, example: Yoritomo, Turnipseed, Cooper,Elliott, Gallagher, Popovics, Prior, and Ziles).“Embedding Writing in Experiential Learning” (Corneal, Morrow, Volz, Saterbak, Conrad,Pfeiffer, Lamb, and Kitch) addresses means of achieving all three of the interrelated goals andprovides a good overview of the diversity of approaches used to integrate technical writing intoexperiential learning of various forms (co-op experiences, design courses, collaboration withpractitioners, and throughout an engineering curriculum). A common theme in all of theseinterventions is improving student motivation and the efficacy of writing
AC 2012-3917: IMPROVING ENGINEERING EDUCATION WITH EN-HANCED CALIBRATED PEER REVIEW ASSESSMENT OF A COLLAB-ORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTDr. Patricia Carlson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Patricia A. Carlson teaches at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She is the author of over seventy publications and presentation. She has used her experience in educational technology on two large-scale Lilly Endowment grants and on two National Science Foundation-funded research projects. In addition to teaching, she is the Director of the PRISM Project, an outreach program that helps Indiana teachers of middle school science, mathematics, and technology to integrate new information technology applications into their
” with CSR in Geological Engineering. All professors agreed that CSR is an important topic to teach in undergraduate curriculum, thoughsuggested methods for teaching these topics vary. Four overarching terms were identified in our initialinterviews: integrated, separate, implicit, and explicit, which from here will be referred to in its entirety asthe ISIE classification (Figure 2). By classifying pedagogy in these terms, it helps us to understandoverarching themes in teaching styles and how easily identifiable CSR topics are for students, as well ashow in-depth into CSR topics the techniques go. “Implicit” in this case indicates more subtle methods ofmentioning CSR, not using the term directly, and not making it the centrally focused
engineering curriculum: They exist side-by-side, institutionally parallel as opposed to convergent. Therefore, an element of bait-and-switchremains, but the outlet of creative, synthetic, hands-on design in an intimate, supportive learningenvironment is both present and institutionally legitimated as part of students’ formalizededucational experience. This arrangement challenges the logic of exclusion prevalent within theengineering-only programming by overlaying a logic of engagement on top of the standardfundamentals-first engineering curriculum. Page 26.616.13Since PDI operates outside of Rensselaer’s core engineering curricula, it provides only a
. Chandanabhumma et al., "Space within the scientific discourse for the voice of the other? Expressions of community voice in the scientific discourse of community-based participatory research," Health communication, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 616-627, 2020.[2] M. Estrada et al., "Improving underrepresented minority student persistence in STEM," CBE-Life Sciences Education, vol. 15, no. 3, p. es5, 2016.[3] D. J. Gilbert, M. L. Held, J. L. Ellzey, W. T. Bailey, and L. B. Young, "Teaching ‘community engagement’ in engineering education for international development: Integration of an interdisciplinary social work curriculum," European Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 256-266, 2015.[4] J. Bowen and G
students focus primarily on the technical aspects of the problem, asapparent in the type of data they seek to collect, many include considerations on the peopleimpacted, government interventions, and cultural values. This study sheds light on the ways thatstudents answer a real-world problem before learning technical problem-solving techniques. Theinsights from this study will be used to supplement the introductory engineering curriculum, sostudents are better positioned to integrate social, economic, and political insights with theirtechnical competencies in solving real-world problems.Introduction "An engineer and a sociologist were tasked with finding the height of a church steeple. The engineer measured the angle to the top of the
Paper ID #26523Designing For Stakeholders: Engineering and Applied Science Students MeetStakeholders in a First-Year Undergraduate Introduction to Design CourseDr. Elizabeth Reddy, Colorado School of Mines Elizabeth Reddy is a social scientist, holding a PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Cal- ifornia at Irvine and an MA in Social Science from the University of Chicago. She is Co-Chair of the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology and Computing in the American Anthropologi- cal Association. She studies experts and their work in relation to environments, technologies, and human lives. Her
whosuggested that it “might be called a post-graduate secondary school.” [ 1,p131].Payne cites US Admiral Rickover who said “Most of the liberal arts education given in ourliberal arts colleges has been absorbed into the curriculum of the European academic secondaryschools…”[1.p132]. It was an attitude that had important consequences for beliefs about the roleof the university in liberal education. Another consequence of this specialization was that itenabled the three year bachelor‟s degree to be the equivalent of an American master‟s degree[1.p 133]Payne notes that if the purpose of the grammar school system was to enable its students to go touniversity then it had been singularly disappointing [p144]. Only a quarter completed all thestages for
Lincoln Center Summer Forum, focusing on integrating performing and visual art into elementary curriculum. In our current trying times, she is producing new plays through Zoom and co-hosting a weekly comedy show on Socially Distant Improv (Instagram Live). c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Paper ID #31067Jimena Bermejo Jimena is a as a movement artist who has moved away from the classical ”rehearse-to-perform” paradigm of her dance training to include imperfections, to break the separation between audience and performer. She uses movement, text, and performance actions to experiment
demonstrate non-technical student outcomes, including those pertaining to ethics,global issues, economics, and understanding of environmental and societal contexts.2When the objective is to improve student writing skills (“learning to write”), an integrated, orwriting across the curriculum (WAC) approach to teaching technical writing is consideredfavorable over the alternative of isolated, stand-alone communication courses that oftendecontextualize writing.3-4 In the integrated approach, communication instruction and practice isdistributed throughout the curriculum and embedded in technical courses, well beyond thestandard inclusion of laboratory reports in laboratory classes. Such an approach also maximallyleverages the writing process towards the
Paper ID #27424Toward a Globalized Engineering Education: Comparing Dominant Imagesof Engineering Education in the United States and ChinaDr. Qin Zhu, Colorado School of Mines Qin Zhu is an Assistant Professor in the Ethics Across Campus Program and the Division of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences at Colorado School of Mines, where he is co-directing the Daniels Fund Program in Professional Ethics Education that provides support for faculty to integrate ethics into applied science and engineering curricula. Qin serves as a graduate faculty member in the Master’s Program in Natural Resources and Energy Policy at
engineering in a writing class appears to yield an excellentfocal topic for a technical report; to motivate students to strive for a “best effort” and to seewriting not as a separate discipline, but as something integral to their overall engineering tool kit;and to demonstrate that using so-called prescriptive, recipe-based pedagogy (sometimes frownedupon by factions within the Rhetoric and Composition discipline) does indeed work well withengineering students learning how to write reports. Furthermore, this kind of assignmentcontributes to engineering students’ mastery of system-level thinking and problem solving;brings a STEM component into writing program classes; and, based on the results of theassignment’s first trial, causes a flicker in the
. Existing programs are often uniquelydesigned for their host institutions and may be difficult to adapt and replicate. In aiding manyschools in overcoming these barriers, several options exist. For example, entirely digital coursesor regional collaborations with co-taught components are possible.Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) is a national network built upon relatively autonomousindividual chapters. Because of this, we chose to focus our responses on a hybrid of physicalclasses that are asynchronously connected to shared curriculum content, community, andprofessional expertise. An asynchronous approach allows greater scale by avoiding the need toschedule several classes simultaneously. Our overall response is titled the Wicked Problems
technology and science writer for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Jared earned a BA in English and creative writing from Colby College, and an MA in literature from Boston College. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Use of Metaphor in Presenting Prototypes to a Technical and Non-Technical Public AudienceAbstractIn undergraduate technical courses, instructors commonly infuse their teaching with metaphors,analogies, and similes to connect new concepts with students’ existing knowledge base. Thispedagogical approach has been shown to be effective in a variety of fields, includingengineering. Similarly, professional engineers translate complex technical
trigonometry,vectors, derivatives, integrals, and differential equations—are actually used by engineers. Asadministrators and instructors of the WSM course pilot at the University of Colorado Boulder(CU), we are interested in understanding and analyzing the change processes wherein the WSMbecomes legitimized and integrated into the official course pathways of our large publicengineering college.At CU, the status of the WSM pilot class changed from optional in Year 1 to mandatory in Year2 for all students entering the engineering college at a Pre-Calculus level. This change fromoptional to mandatory resulted in a significant increase to the size of the class and a fundamentalchange in the ways students were informed of and enrolled in the class. In
human centered design, participatory development, and design for development themes. She was a co- founder of the non-profit Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) which promotes ecological sanitation in Haiti.Dr. Richard A House, Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyDr. Alexander T. Dale, Engineers for a Sustainable World Alexander Dale is the Executive Director of Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh. His academic background is in energy and water policy, life-cycle assessment, and sustainable design. As one of the re-founders of ESW, he has focused on expanding educational opportunities as well as new engagement for faculty and professionals
bring in from their home environments/cultures to recognizing thesystemic ways in which classroom mathematics activities can hinder this “home” mathematicalthinking from becoming integrated into the “school math” students are learning. 5Third, these studies suggest an entanglement between teachers’ noticing of the substance (notjust the correctness) of students’ reasoning and their noticing of equity-related issues ofparticipation and positioning. McDuffie et al. (2014) documented how growth in teachers’attention to the substance of student reasoning was accompanied by growth in their noticing of(in)equitable participation patterns and power
that responsibility should bedistributed across the entire . . .curriculum” (Perelman, p. 65). 5The Technical Communication Community Adds Specificity to the Evaluation Criteria byDistinguishing Among Different Models of Integration In the same year as Liberal Education for Twenty-First Century Engineering waspublished, Reave (2004) published a survey of technical communication instruction at top-ranked U.S. and Canadian programs. Although several organizations and journals are devoted totechnical communication, we highlight Reave’s paper because it takes an approach that isvaluable but seldom pursued: going beyond a single course
mathematics (STEM) educators in particular to engagetheir students in higher order modes of learning. The uneven rate at which writing and STEMreforms are implemented3,4 reinforces the need for a new approach to reform, one that isdiscipline specific and faculty-driven.The Writing-Enriched Curriculum (WEC) model is informed by shifts in the perception ofwriting itself. Since the mid-20th century, the traditional view of writing as a mode ofcommunication, has evolved. Guided by psycholinguistic research, the current, expanded view isthat writing is a mode of communication and learning. Writing is now recognized as an abilitythat students continue to develop throughout their academic education and later careers as theyengage with increasingly complex
institutional cultureat the school in regards to ESI education. The conversations illuminated a range of perspectivesregarding the most effective ways to educate engineering and computing students about ESI.Emergent, thematic coding of the interview data revealed diverging opinions on whether thetopics should be taught in curricular or co-curricular settings, in required or elective courses, byengineering or non-engineering faculty, and in standalone ethics courses, integrated intotechnical courses, or across the curriculum. The results highlight different approaches suggestingbest practices could be better clarified based on context and setting. Despite the varying opinionson settings and approaches, all of the interviewees expressed the importance of
treating professional skill development as an “extra” requirement that comessecondary to technical skill development. Of course, there may be other ways to offerprofessional skill development that have yet to be explored.One particular approach used by the ECE department may offer a potential avenue for howABET criteria training can be embedded into the engineering curriculum to achieve integration.ECE initiated several curricular innovations to improve students’ professional skills as part oftheir NSF sponsored project focused on improving engineering curriculum. A major emphasis ofthe project was to create an integrated approach to delivering second- and third-year coursecontent with relevancy to application in the ECE curriculum. The curriculum
multidisciplinaryteam as one of its undergraduate curriculum learning outcomes, listed in Appendix B.Communication skills are considered an important component within engineering curricula,either as stand-alone classes or integrated into a program curriculum along with otherimportant process skills. In the integrated approach, all of these skills are coveredprogressively in a series of courses. Examples of the integrated approach are those at theVirginia Tech's Materials Science and Engineering Department3 and the University ofQueensland’s Project Centred Curriculum in Chemical Engineering for the third and fourthyear students4.The communication skills course in our program is a stand-alone class, nevertheless, it hasbeen developed as part of our effort to
programs embedded inengineering schools in the United States and Canada. The authors expand on previousscholarship by Kathryn Neeley, Caitlin Wylie, and Bryn Seabrook in “In Search of Integration:Mapping Conceptual Efforts to Apply STS to Engineering Education,” as presented at the 2019ASEE annual conference, to examine how STS is incorporated in engineering education. WhileNeeley, Wylie, and Seabrook focused on broad trends within a single, large professional society(ASEE), this study focuses on two particular embedded STS programs, with an emphasis on howthe research team describes STS for engineers and encourages meaningful integration. What does the field of STS offer engineering students? What core STS concepts andapproaches do we teach
multidisciplinary team setting where “(1) each team member serves in awell-defined role in the team; (2) each team member brings a particular expertise to bear insolving the problem; and (3) the scope of the problem is sufficiently broad that no one teammember could successfully solve the problem alone [8, p. 20].”ABET addressed the liberal arts through a professional component by requiring “a generaleducation component that complements the technical content of the curriculum and is consistentwith the program and institution objectives [6, p. 2].” ABET directed that program outcomesand student assessments demonstrate that some of the skills related to the liberal arts as having:(1) “an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility”; and to (2
Education, Honolulu, HI.5. Eichhorn K. et al. (2010). “Infusing Communication Skills in an Engineering Curriculum.” Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education, Louisville, KY.6. Jernquist, et al. (2007). “Developing an Engineering Writing Handbook – A Case Study.” Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education, Honolulu, HI.7. Heibling, J. et al. (2005). “Collaborative Development of an Engineering Style Manual.” Proceedings of the 2005 Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education, Portland, OR.8. Adam, D. and Manion, W. (2005). “When Less is More: Integrating Technical Writing Instruction in a Large
single offering of a course) at a single institution. As long as the majorityof papers report on a single intervention or single institution, with little reference to what otherinstitutions are doing, coherence in the scholarly conversation will be an elusive goal. The “one-off,” as we might call it, creates a publishable unit but gains significance for the broaderscholarly community only when it is integrated into a larger pattern of practice and assessment.To identify areas for potentially strategic action, we focused papers that either demonstrated orsuggested potentially more impactful ways of organizing research and publishing oncommunication in engineering. One example of a potentially more impactful design was“Preliminary Investigation of
enrollment caps staying the same at an average of 26 students. The class alsosatisfied 3-credit hours and was offered on a Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule for 50-minutes or Tuesday-Thursday for 75-minutes. Classroom design and locations also stayed thesame as the regular course. The three main differences between the regular required course and the targeted coursecentered on the course objectives and finer details of the curriculum that was geared towardengineers. First, where the regular course explores classic examples of speechmaking, theengineering course was grounded in supplying relevant examples from the scientific community.For example, students were shown full presentation examples delivered by engineers aboutengineering topics